Printer Ink levels and capabilities

[Soren Hansen]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:46:41AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Yes I think so too. How can we get the ink information for locally
> connected printers? Is this a cups thing?

I'm quite sure there's nothing in cups to handle this. It's all about
different command line utililites for each vendor. Very annoying.

> What about HP, Lexmark and the others?

I know that HP printers have a command line util to fetch the info.

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